One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
Discussion
matchmaker said:
People who stop randomly at the side of the road with their foot on the brake but without indicators. If you have to stop, put your left hand indicator on so other road users know you're stopped.
Example. A couple of weeks ago I was going to park in a city centre car park. It's an ANPR controlled one so no barriers, etc. A Renault was stopped half way along the access road, brake lights on. I waited a few seconds then, as I was blocking the access from the main road, I started to pass the Renault. Just as I came level with its rear it started to move off.
I tapped the horn (not a "get the f
k out of my way" full on blast) to warn him of my presence and continued into the car park.
As I was buying my ticket the driver came storming up to me. "Why did you blast your horn at me? I was reading the sign about the car park". I replied that I hadn't "blasted" the horn at him - it was just a light tap to warn him of my presence as he obviously hadn't seen me. He didn't like that and began shouting "Can't you see I'm a stranger and not from around here?"
That's it, all my fault. I obviously missed the big "I'm a stranger and not from around here" sign on the back of his car.
Apparently using your horn is a sign of a poor, unable to anticipate (read minds) driver who is being aggressive. Not as stated in the Highway Code to alert another road user that "you are there".Example. A couple of weeks ago I was going to park in a city centre car park. It's an ANPR controlled one so no barriers, etc. A Renault was stopped half way along the access road, brake lights on. I waited a few seconds then, as I was blocking the access from the main road, I started to pass the Renault. Just as I came level with its rear it started to move off.
I tapped the horn (not a "get the f
k out of my way" full on blast) to warn him of my presence and continued into the car park.As I was buying my ticket the driver came storming up to me. "Why did you blast your horn at me? I was reading the sign about the car park". I replied that I hadn't "blasted" the horn at him - it was just a light tap to warn him of my presence as he obviously hadn't seen me. He didn't like that and began shouting "Can't you see I'm a stranger and not from around here?"
That's it, all my fault. I obviously missed the big "I'm a stranger and not from around here" sign on the back of his car.
Not sure why people believe this???
SistersofPercy said:
Issi said:
Anyone who can't leave their phones/tablets/pads alone for more than two seconds.
I went out for a meal last night and a teenage/early 20's girl, sat fiddling with her phone for the entire time that she was there.
Apart from confirming her order, I didn't hear her speak another word for about an hour, she'd put the phone down, cut a piece of food up, and as soon as she'd forked it into her mouth, she'd drop the fork and pick up her iphone again.
Her parents appeared to think that this was absolutely fine and didn't ask her to put the damned thing in her purse while they were out.
Went out the other week and a bloke came in with what I assume was his son, a boy of about 10. As soon they sat he pointed to something on the menu then he pulled out an iPad and never looked up again. His Dad spent the entire meal staring into space. I went out for a meal last night and a teenage/early 20's girl, sat fiddling with her phone for the entire time that she was there.
Apart from confirming her order, I didn't hear her speak another word for about an hour, she'd put the phone down, cut a piece of food up, and as soon as she'd forked it into her mouth, she'd drop the fork and pick up her iphone again.
Her parents appeared to think that this was absolutely fine and didn't ask her to put the damned thing in her purse while they were out.
yorkshireegg said:
Needless to say he turned left at the lights (no decent roads that way so nothing to be held up on for him). Coupled with the fact that C2 knobber went back to travelling at 45mph when I'd got by, it seems such knobs don't block overtakes and risk an accident for any kind of reasonable gain, it is just to be a fking ahole. Do they not understand the stress and danger they cause? Or is it so they can tell their mates down the pub that their car is 'nearly as fast as a (insert PH approved car here) because he struggled to overtake me'?
It seems to be a common occurrence on this thread and many others and, in all honesty, I expect it quite often driving an E36 but it's pretty rare in my experience. To happen twice in two days within a mile of each other tells me something else is at work here. Is the knob-rot from the south spreading north?
This has been happening for years but seems to be getting more and more common, and is the reason I started buying larger engined cars instead of small economical ones. Think some people expect you to just remain behind them no matter how slowly they are going and if you dare overtake them you are the Anti-Christ and must be destroyed.king ahole. Do they not understand the stress and danger they cause? Or is it so they can tell their mates down the pub that their car is 'nearly as fast as a (insert PH approved car here) because he struggled to overtake me'?It seems to be a common occurrence on this thread and many others and, in all honesty, I expect it quite often driving an E36 but it's pretty rare in my experience. To happen twice in two days within a mile of each other tells me something else is at work here. Is the knob-rot from the south spreading north?
It costs me a lot more for my motoring these days just to remain safe from these holier than thou, self-important, arrogant knobs.
If you should overtake someone in a perfectly safe and legal way and happen to sound your horn just to make sure they know you are there, you will be forever condemned to eternal flames for being a roadhog
Some people today need to learn a bit of respect for others instead of being so self-absorbed!
CoolHands said:
can only assume you havent been driving very long, or are simply too polite. The above is exactly why you must never, ever, show your hand. You bimble long like mr bean until the opportunity presents itself then WHAMO fire past at full throttle and leave the s behind. Never fails.
Good tactic. Does not give them time to turn on knob mode s behind. Never fails.
JagXJR said:
CoolHands said:
can only assume you havent been driving very long, or are simply too polite. The above is exactly why you must never, ever, show your hand. You bimble long like mr bean until the opportunity presents itself then WHAMO fire past at full throttle and leave the s behind. Never fails.
Good tactic. Does not give them time to turn on knob mode s behind. Never fails.The most recent was an estate of some description with a Scottish flag sticker on the boot that toddled along at fifty-fifty five but god forbid any that tried to overtake him as I had observed his habit of sticking his foot down when any tried to overtake him on the other side of Bishop when a car tried it and he only relented when the bypass narrowed down to a single lane. I pulled this manoeuvre on him (in my 200 Coupe
) and he only cottoned on to my overtake when I was past him as he tried to match my speed but gave up when I simply pressed harder on the throttle (the old girls got a bit of get up and go in her in top gear, not so much in forth strangely).Knob yesterday was a white Insignia on the way home, I was behind a Focus and we're coming up to the A1 junction/interchange on the A689, here comes the insignia in lane two, fair enough who then promptly pulls across the nose of the Focus and off down the A1 (a small mercy that the Focus driver wasn't the fastest accelerator in the world). Don't normally see this kind of a
holery in this neck of the woods.Not sure if this has made it here yet....
But I'll just put it here.
I don't have kids myself but if I did, I'm pretty sure "Knob" would have been pretty high on the list of words used to describe this spectacular piece of policing. Good Job fella!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-...
But I'll just put it here.
I don't have kids myself but if I did, I'm pretty sure "Knob" would have been pretty high on the list of words used to describe this spectacular piece of policing. Good Job fella!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-...
Me today (again or as usual delete as appropriate).
I was in a pet store buying stuff for a snake and in the Vet's office a puppy yelped loud enough for the whole shop to hear.
I was in a pet store buying stuff for a snake and in the Vet's office a puppy yelped loud enough for the whole shop to hear.
I said:
If you hear that noise in a Vet's it's okay but if you hear it in a restaurant you need to consider eating somewhere else.
8Ace said:
The nitwit at the Egham roundabout. They were just approaching the dual carriageway turnoff that takes you towards the Ferrari Garage. In theleft hand lane, indicating left.
You can guess what happened next.
That roundabout is full of halfwits on a regular basis, so I'm not surprised. You can guess what happened next.
1. People who drive down a motorway slip roads an just do a right turn onto the motorway instead of building up speed and merging in from the acceleration lane.
2. People who park on motorway bridges to watch the traffic below.
3. People who enter empty laybys and park in the middle instead of driving all the way to the end.
If you think these are unjustified, then your wrong.. Your all f*ck*d!!
2. People who park on motorway bridges to watch the traffic below.
3. People who enter empty laybys and park in the middle instead of driving all the way to the end.
If you think these are unjustified, then your wrong.. Your all f*ck*d!!
exitwound said:
1. People who drive down a motorway slip roads an just do a right turn onto the motorway instead of building up speed and merging in from the acceleration lane.
2. People who park on motorway bridges to watch the traffic below.
3. People who enter empty laybys and park in the middle instead of driving all the way to the end.
If you think these are unjustified, then your wrong.. Your all f*ck*d!!
'You're'2. People who park on motorway bridges to watch the traffic below.
3. People who enter empty laybys and park in the middle instead of driving all the way to the end.
If you think these are unjustified, then your wrong.. Your all f*ck*d!!
thismonkeyhere said:
exitwound said:
1. People who drive down a motorway slip roads an just do a right turn onto the motorway instead of building up speed and merging in from the acceleration lane.
2. People who park on motorway bridges to watch the traffic below.
3. People who enter empty laybys and park in the middle instead of driving all the way to the end.
If you think these are unjustified, then your wrong.. Your all f*ck*d!!
'You're'2. People who park on motorway bridges to watch the traffic below.
3. People who enter empty laybys and park in the middle instead of driving all the way to the end.
If you think these are unjustified, then your wrong.. Your all f*ck*d!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2987698/Ca...
I don't know if this guy has his own critique thread but what a total knob.
Heavily pregnant passenger, baled rear tyres due to a welded diff', wrong size ill fitting front tyres, little suspension, ABS disconnected; pleads "Guilty" to dangerous driving (by virtue of driving a dangerous vehicle) and moans about being "singled out" and "made an example of".
Apparently "BMW breaks" have a history of being problematic.
If I were a cop or magistrate I would have thrown the book at him for the sake of the unborn child he endangered with the tyres and brakes alone.
If I were the father of that unborn child I would shove that pitiful excuse of a car up his arse; but that's more Jeremy Kyle than Judge Judy.
Maybe he has been made an example of but it's an example of Darwin's theories.
I don't know if this guy has his own critique thread but what a total knob.
Heavily pregnant passenger, baled rear tyres due to a welded diff', wrong size ill fitting front tyres, little suspension, ABS disconnected; pleads "Guilty" to dangerous driving (by virtue of driving a dangerous vehicle) and moans about being "singled out" and "made an example of".
Apparently "BMW breaks" have a history of being problematic.
If I were a cop or magistrate I would have thrown the book at him for the sake of the unborn child he endangered with the tyres and brakes alone.
If I were the father of that unborn child I would shove that pitiful excuse of a car up his arse; but that's more Jeremy Kyle than Judge Judy.
Maybe he has been made an example of but it's an example of Darwin's theories.
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